e-cigarette aren't as bad as they told us

Late last year an article titled Cases tied e-cigarettes to lug injuries, pneumonia said that a study found that diacetyl, a chemical that can cause lung damage, was found in e-cigarettes. That news went viral and likely scared the dickens out of many e-cigarette users.

But wait just a minute. Guy Bentley has been all over this with several articles at Dailycaller.com refuting that finding and questioning the motive of those promoting that theory.

See, for example, Media Bias Exposed: ‘Popcorn Lung’ Chemical 750 Times Greater In Tobacco Vs. E-Cigarettes:

But according to Dr. Michael Siegel, a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health, the Harvard study has several “glaring omissions,” and the level of diacetyl exposure from vaping compared with smoking differs by “orders of magnitude.”

And this: Scientist Debunks Latest Claim That E-Cigarettes Are As Dangerous As Tobacco:

In a statement sent to The Daily Caller News Foundation, Siegel said, “this study confirms previous findings that e-cigarette vapor can cause damage to epithelial cell lines in culture, and that the damage caused by e-cigarette vapor is much lower than that caused by tobacco smoke. ... In particular, the dose at which e-cigarette vapor was found to have an adverse effect was much higher than the actual dose that a vapor receives. ”

Furthermore, Professor Warns War On E-Cigarettes Protects Big Tobacco And Kills Smokers:

Adjunct professor of law at the University of Ottowa and special lecturer with the division of epidemiology and public health at the University of Nottingham, David Sweanor spent more than 30 years fighting tobacco. ... But now, Sweanor has split from many in the anti-smoking movement because he supports e-cigarettes.

“There’s a very strong abstinence-only part of what’s going on in the anti-smoking movement. I think it’s one of the most counter-productive things that we’ve ever seen,” Sweanor told Regulator Watch Saturday.

“We’ve known for decades people smoke for the nicotine, they die from the tar, they die from the smoke. That the nicotine itself, that the dosage level somebody’s looking for is not particularly hazardous so it can be usefully compared to caffeine.”

So puff away, my vaping friends. And keep thinking critically.

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